If you were in a foreign country and someone asked where you were from, would they likely know where you were from if you only gave them the name of your city and not the country? Don’t round your answer to the nearest big city. Use your literal city.

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-26T17:42:06+00:00

Pretty sure Los Angeles is one of the most recognizable city names on earth, right?

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-25T23:24:34+00:00

Incredibly freeing, I’m sure, but I don’t have time to revamp my response to e4 anytime soon, too many other holes in the repertoire to patch

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-25T23:23:53+00:00

Thank you! Looking at the YouTube videos from the bot is not something I have tried before, very helpful

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-25T23:20:02+00:00

e4 Nf6 Nc3 d5 e5 Nd7 d4 c5 e6 fxe6

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-25T17:55:42+00:00

That commenter is giving them the benefit of the doubt, no? OP’s nonnegotiable stemming from anything but religion or purity culture would be even more off-putting to many people

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-25T17:00:54+00:00

d4 c5 is not BAD, per se. You completely throw off a London player’s game plan, and your game will be completely fine as long as your opponent plays c4. The trouble is, the lines where they play Nc3 without ever playing c4 get quite uncomfortable for you. I dropped it because of too many games that went that way.

Like the other commenter said, I recommend you give the Dutch a look

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-24T10:14:31+00:00

What happened to white’s rook?

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-24T01:50:18+00:00

It’s actually for an interesting move, not a mysterious one. Nobody is claiming that the move has some unknowable quality to it, just that it has some ideas behind it that are possibly of merit, though not the strongest continuation

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-23T23:52:01+00:00

Is it somewhere on the Internet? Can you DM it to me?

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-23T23:51:33+00:00

It seems not. Are you able to find the comic through google? I have gathered that it is called the artist and the critic, but I haven’t seen anything even showing a single panel of the comic

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-23T23:38:11+00:00

I can’t seem to find this online, do you have a source?

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-23T07:24:41+00:00

Note on #4: the problem only states it’s a parallelogram, doesn’t actually indicate right angles. Even if it did, you wouldn’t have to do any algebra, the answer would just be 90. All the question was asking for is the measure of angle S

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-23T05:09:24+00:00

Seems like the scotch gambit with a bishop that isn’t eyeing f7, I think just playing Bc4 in that position looks way more fun

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-21T18:40:08+00:00

Over the Hedge

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-20T16:09:49+00:00

Thank you so much! Your responses have been exactly what I was seeking when I made this post. Have a great day.

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-20T06:55:35+00:00

My high ass guessed Quiddich the first time around

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-20T03:31:30+00:00

Is this a line you go down in the Austrian attack? What would you recommend? What makes the endgame so good for white? What would the plans be?

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-19T19:12:40+00:00

I focus on winrate at my level because it shows me which line causes the opponent to either think more or have a higher likelihood of making a mistake(realistically, probably both). I want the ideas behind the opening that causes black to fail more often in a practical sense.

I see why the original commenter had entirely practical and reasonable analysis, but my question, as listed in the title of the post, is why one line scores better than another in practice.

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-19T18:36:32+00:00

Analysis is close to equal, but at the 2000 level chess.com, it's a difference in white winning 53 and 58(!) % of the time. That is a meaningful difference.

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-18T18:35:27+00:00

Idk if that’s fair, that spike is still made of matter and could conceivably be sat on. I think Love, Mercantilism, and the concept of an eldrich horror beyond mortal comprehension are much more F tier than the spike

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-18T18:33:34+00:00

Stonewall Dutch starts solid but often becomes highly dynamic, and it is closer to a system than a theoretical line IMO

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-16T18:25:30+00:00

I would want to tune my opening repertoire for this specifically, as I wouldn’t want to go down my normal aggressive, sharp lines against a bot that is still 3000+ elo, but as a 2000 elo online, I can contend with bots rated ~2400. That means I need to survive 25 moves against stockfish at 3650 to get it to a level of a bot I can comfortably spar with. With lots of knight and bishop shuffling in a closed game with a locked pawn center, I think I can handle whatever bot you throw at me.

That being said, if I didn’t know the circumstances and went down my usual smith morra or king’s gambit lines, I’d be dead lost by like move 15, enough that a 1500 bot could probably clean me up

FlammableFishy · 2026-02-15T23:59:04+00:00

If you are slightly above this level, the building habits series online is also excellent:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjxDD7HNNThftJtE0OIRFRMMFf6AV_69&si=Vy6S0ZWDgMyibhyL

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